Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the most powerful Wall Street law firms, also got the email.

The
email was also sent to King Street Capital Management, a hedge fund
with $20 billion under management, and private equity firms The Carlyle
Group and The Cypress Group.

CNBC provided no insights on who sent the e-mail early or why. However, Bloombergdid:

Brian Gross, a member of the Fed’s congressional liaison staff,
distributed the March 19-20 minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee
meeting at 2 p.m. yesterday.

The release was “entirely accidental,” Smith said. “This was a list of
professional contacts that one individual had,” she said. “This group of
individuals does not in any normal course receive any information
early.” The mistake was discovered this morning, according to the
central bank.

How does one accidentally type and e-mail, address it their personal contacts, attach the minutes and press send?

Gross is a former staffer of former Senator Phil Gramm, a Texas Republican who was chairman of the Banking Committee from 1999 to 2001.

Long-time watchers of the U.S. central bank could
not recall another incident when such a highly sensitive document was
released a day early.

This isn't surprising under America's Government-Corporate Monstrosity, Eisenhower's MIC on trillions in federal steroids. Carlyle Group co-founder Bill Conway likes a PEU tilted playing field. How could an early release help Carlyle and its PEU brethren? And how might it help Brian Gross navigate his next high paying job with the GCM?

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